It sounds like any common household or gardening tool (knife, pick axe, sharpened pointy stick) stuck though an eye would do the trick.
They mentioned a few episodes ago, when they macerated the zombie corpse to smear on the two guys as a disguise, not to get any infected tissue on exposed skin. They have, of course, ignored their own rule repeatedly, but that implies that the zombifying is caused by an infectious agent.
And, just because it tickled me, I’ll share with you that apparently “zombifying” is a perfectly cromulent word for my spellcheck. (But cromulent isn’t.)
Yes but does their flesh and rotting remains still contain the plague? That is the question… they took great cares not to get infected when smearing zombie guts on them to escape the city the first time.
I really hope not. I’m happy to accept it as just having been a sense of impending doom or something (shortly followed by said doom) - that something terrible was bound to happen sooner or later.
I was finding it a bit nerve-wracking at the end when they were alternating between closeups of Andrea and the dying Amy [“Shit! Your face is way too close! She’s about to turn! Your face is way too close! She’s about to turn!!!”]
Remember that it was Rick who cautioned them (“Don’t get any on your skin or in your eyes.”), and he’s just out of a coma with no experience of the onset of the apocalypse. So that can be attributed to being reasonably over-cautious about exposure with no real experiential data to support it. I do agree the thing with the hunting arrows would bother me, but it’s also possible Daryl uses one set for hunting food and a different set for killing zombies.
Yeah, I was wondering about that too. We’ve heard the bitten-living get a fever that burns through them and results in zombification (and that takes some time), but I don’t think we’ve seen yet how quickly the newly-dead become newly-zombies.
One of the most interesting things about this show is we appear to be learning details at the same time as the characters. There’s a lot they don’t really know, there’s speculation, and they’re making mistakes as they go. As acsenray alluded, there are details we don’t know because they don’t know. It’s quite an effective storytelling technique.
Exactly. In most movies and shows of this ilk, there is the Government Scientist Character that explains all the Why’s and How’s. We don’t have anything like that here. I agree it is a good choice.
Ah, I see. Since I missed the first show, I assumed that they knew not to get infected stuff on their skin. Well, I guess they have the perfect opportunity to learn how it happens now.
Absolutely loved this episode. I think this one had the highest levels of action and suspense. I’ve been trying (unsuccessfully) not to pick apart the storyline flaws too harshly, but one from last night’s episode really sticks out : the missing truck. So they walked back to camp? All the way from Atlanta? I mean, you can see the buildings in the distance, but I’m guessing it’s quite a few miles in distance. At least 10?
Jeez, must we always nitpick? I’d say it was probably more like 20 miles, but I had no problem with that since they left in broad daylight and arrived at night. Leave at 3pm, walk at 4mph for 5 hours and show up at 9pm.
If Merle had driven up and attacked and they managed to arrive as he was attacking, then yeah, nitpick away. But thankfully that’s not what happened. (I was bracing for that, and it would have annoyed me.)
That’s actually Freedom Parkway, which connects Atlanta with the Carter Center, and the residential neighborhoods surrounding it (just to the east of downtown). In the series, though, it is supposed to be passing for I-85.
Apparently, Bellwood Quarry, the location for these scenes, is within the city limits of Atlanta, about four or five miles from the center of the city.
Average human walks @ 3-4 MPH; a bunch of healthy guys, so call it 4- they could do that in three hours. It did take them from daylight to dark to do it.
It’s a technique that depends on a thoughtful audience that is patient enough to allow the in story rules to be revealed as the story demands it. It strikes me as quite different from The Event, which I stopped watching after 4 episodes because the pacing and reveals seemed to be dictated by the creators wanting to tease out enough info to keep people interested yet still have unexplained elements to keep them interested. It’s like they didn’t trust the audience; or maybe, didn’t trust their story was interesting enough on its own.
I was assuming they’d want to cremate in a funereal manner until the body was, erm, respectfully disposed of… not just unable to zombify. I looked up the http://crestoneendoflifeproject.org/ which does open air cremations in Colorado… it takes a half-cord of wood. I actually thought it would be more than that, but still, I wouldn’t want to saw it up. I add this fun fact to my trove of trivial knowledge and hope to win Jeopardy one day with a gruesome cremation-related question.
I’ve been hating on this show, but this episode was better than the last two. It wasn’t as good as the first, but it was better. I thought the latino gang stuff was kind of dumb and groaned when the matron broke up the stand off. That was lame.
At least a bunch of characters are dead. That’ll help. It had way too many.
Excellent episode! They didn’t go for the quick payoff of the crazy murderous gang! It makes sense that at least some groups would have a lot of elderly and kids hanging around them. Even gangbangers have grandmas. Such a thing would be harder to explore in a film because presumably the filmmakers don’t want to spend 20 mins of a 90 min film talking about old people and watching them play bingo. Another reason why I’m happy this is a TV series!
(But cromulent isn’t.)
